Re: A kewl Script, for you someone to test, and show me the results

At 06:47 AM 9/29/2001, Andrew Brampton wrote:

NO, Doesn't read the logs, actually connects to the HL server, and reads the players/scores.. Programs like GameSpy do it.. its not that hard to actually do.. I looked into it a while ago, and all you do is connect to the server, send a simple command and it returns a list of players/scores, and you can eventually reteive info like current map, time left, and all the server settings... U can see a CGI Perl example of it here: http://www.half-life.ewetel.net/cgi-bin/hlds_ld.cgi?212.6.108.253:60010 Bramp P.S I may have to make a script to do this for HL in PHP... would anyone like that?

Actually, it does just read the logs. hlds_ld is an administration tool for halflife dedicated servers, and that's the cgi interface to it. It does nothing with the halflife protocol. However, there's a program called qstat which speaks tribes/halflife/quake/quake2/quake3/quakeworld/etc protocols and will output the information you want. I think it would be easier to call that then parse the results to do what you want with it. let me know if you need further help, -j --------------------------------------------------------

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